Royals dethrone Cougars in OT; end ten-game losing skid
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Streak snapped.
Brayden Schuurman scored at three minutes into overtime on Friday as the Victoria Royals edged the Prince George Cougars 2-1 at Sandman Centre in Kamloops.
The victory ended the Royals ten-game losing streak.
Almost like a broken record, the Cougars got off to a slow start as Brandon Cutler tickled the twine at the 17:48 mark of the first period beating Ty Young who was making his second career WHL start.
“We didn’t set the tone at all, we weren’t ready to play and we had to regroup. Sometimes that happens but in hockey you have to be prepared right from the start all the time and then we started playing uphill,” said Mark Lamb, Cougars Head Coach and GM.
Browne, Gronick help Cougars dethrone Victoria
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Mired in a four-game slump, Prince George Cougars Head Coach and General Manager Mark Lamb decided to shake things up.
After putting the forward lines into a blender, the Cats regained their offensive stroke on Monday, defeating the Victoria Royals 4-1 from Sandman Centre in Kamloops.
“We really worked hard over the past couple days and after we lost that last game we had meetings to figure it out and we worked on some things and the guys bought in and worked hard.”
“We changed some lines around and that happens all the during the year to change things around and for the players it’s something fresh too and it worked,” said Lamb.
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Prince George controlled the face-off circle 39-16 and when you do that you control the game. “The Cougars got a lot of puck possession off the draws. We will work on that. We had a couple of young centres out there and we will help them with that,” said Price. Anaheim Ducks first-round draft-pick Brayden Tracey, who had a seven-game points streak of five goals and six assists snapped in Thursday’s 4-0 loss to the Vancouver Giants, opened scoring for Victoria on the power play at 11:32 of the first period. The Royals’ reverie was not long lived, however, as the Cougars went ahead in the second period on the first goals of the season for Majid Kaddoura and Keaton Dowhaniuk.
Cougars balanced attack proves too much for Royals
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Once again, they passed with flying colours.
Coming off a dismal defeat at the hands of the Kamloops Blazers (a 5-0 loss on Wednesday), the Cats righted the ship and pounced to a 5-2 victory over the Victoria Royals on Friday in Kelowna.
“I liked everything about the effort. We had a couple guys jump back into the lineup, MacAdams played very well, he hasn’t played in a while and all four lines had spots in the game where they were really good. It’s a complete team effort and whether we score first or not it’s a good win,” said Mark Lamb, Cougars Head Coach and GM.